<em>Shocking Corn</em>Thomas Hart Benton's painting of a rural American landscape shows two farmers working in the field forming high upright piles of corn stalks. He juxtaposes his farmers, who wear red and white shirts and blue and black pants, with the golden figural corn stalks in the foreground. The painting is made up of prominent brushstrokes that form a series of undulating curved forms, each echoing the others’ shape. For example, the hills in the background mirror the shape of the clouds.Thomas Hart BentonPurchase, Katharine G. Ordway Fund88.02.01Minnesota Museum of American ArtIn CopyrightPainting